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Business Requirements

Business Risks

Category: Higher Education

Virtual Learning

Company Background

The use of shared services to maximize utilization is exploring virtualization and other options for reducing the carbon footprint.

Lack of carbon reduction compliance

Lost image in marketplace over green credentials

Lost business due to inability to offer green services

Business Problem/Description

Distance learning is an essential component of public community colleges that are engines for workforce development for local economy. In recent years, public community colleges are adversely affected by state budget cuts. These college campuses are looking for opportunities to cut cost without affecting delivery channels and student enrollment.

Virtual learning environment is one of the common delivery methods in higher education. Each of the community colleges in a state maintains its own set of applications and infrastructure for virtual learning environment duplicating IT cost for each of the campuses and college systems.

Actors Faculty Student

Instructional Technology Specialists

Business Requirements

Business Risks

The use of shared environments by different community college campuses in a state for delivery of virtual education to certain population in the community as an alternative to classroom teaching.

Lack of insufficient state funding will lead to elimination of distant learning programs

Shutting down a delivery method often times which is the only viable learning delivery method to a part of the population who are engines for the local workforce

Loss of student enrollment to online schools that specialize and are pure players in distant learning and virtual education delivery